Keith.Bromhead

Sailing yesterday What a difference a week makes. No rain, just wall to wall sunshine. No gales with unmanageable gusts, just a force 2 with holes in the wind all over the place. A slightly delayed start with the 2 minutes silence being observed but that was no great loss as there was hardly any …

Flying Fifteen Update 25

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Sailing yesterday What a morning to wake up to yesterday! Rain lashing against the windows. Managed to load up the car between the showers but arrived at Bewl and it was pouring again. Shortly after 9.30, there were 10 of us sitting having coffee in the warm and the race officers, Chris and Martin from …

Flying Fifteen Update 24

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Arrived at Bewl yesterday and the sun was shining and there was a good westerly force 3-4 blowing with 13 knot gusts. Could life get much better? Yes it could!! I was the fourth Fifteen down on the slip to rig but then more and more arrived. In the end, 12 of us made our …

Flying Fifteen Update 23

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Ice on the windscreen yesterday morning as I was loading up the car and no wind. Arrived at Bewl and ice on the boat cover and no wind. However, six of us took our boats down to the slipway but only Eric and Bill took the cover of theirs…. and that was only to step …

Flying Fifteen Update 22

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I was first and only Fifteen on the slipway yesterday for some time and thought that I’d be getting first place in the race until Dan and then Paddy turned up. But, hey, third would better than most weeks! All we needed now was some wind. Two cups of coffee later and Jo and Ann, …

Flying Fifteen Update 21

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In Keith’s and Geoff’s absence I have been volunteered to give my impressions of yesterdays sailing, seen from the pointy end of Jo Mayes boat. The Wanderer Inland Championships meant that our race was confined to a proportion of the main lake and the virtually triangular course of HBWX, all to port , resulted in …